Every hundred years a flashpoint arises in the perpetual battle between good and evil.
For a single moment, it becomes possible to tip the delicate balance of power, and deliver a final
victory to the forces of heroic good, or eternal evil. For centuries this evil was embodied by
the greatest of the vampires, Count Dracula, and the myriad of creatures he controlled.
In 1887 he was opposed by the legendary hunter Abraham Van Helsing and a small
group of freedom fighters, in 1987, he was confronted by… The Monster Squad.
A pre-teen paramilitary group, the Monster Squad began as a loose coalition between Sean Crenshaw,
Patrick Rhodes and Horace, last name unknown. The trio’s early activities consisted mostly of
drawing pictures of monsters, both from popular culture and their own original creations.
This drew the ire and frustration of the local educational establishment and led to
the group’s periodic persecution in the form of forced detention.
The purpose of these drawings was both to familiarize the group with various monsters,
and also to adorn the walls of the Monster
Squad’s headquarters. This was a ramshackle clubhouse constructed on the banks of local
swampland, adeptly suited to performing reconnaissance on neighboring houses.
The Monster Squad was originally very stringent in their recruitment standards,
with an all encompassing and discriminatory no-girls policy that appeared mainly directed
at Sean’s younger sister, Phoebe. The arrival of Dracula and the forces of darkness in the
area however, would lead to the largest expansion in the Monster Squad’s history.
Faced with mounting evidence of monster activity in their area, the group admitted Rudy Holloran
and promoted the much younger sibling Eugene from a junior associate to full member. Phoebe was
also finally permitted entry, having befriended Frankenstein’s monster and convinced him to betray
Dracula. With this roster, the Monster Squad had acquired the personnel that would make it famous.
Sean Crenshaw remained the group's ideological and spiritual leader
with an unparalleled understanding of a monster’s strengths and weaknesses.
Patrick was second-in-command, managing the day to day activities and freeing Sean to focus on
planning the unit’s next move. Horace, was an enthusiastic, if often cowardly footsoldier,
while Phoebe might be said to have acted as the group’s soul. Rudy served as weapon’s officer,
leveraging his access to shop class and archery ranges to acquire armaments and munitions.
Eugene performed a more auxiliary role, attempting to contact local
United States Army units and alert them to the threat posed by Dracula. This dynamic,
while ultimately effective, was originally based on a misunderstanding of Miami Vice.
The Monster Squad’s successes were at first mixed. Though they obtained a magical amulet
critical to Dracula’s plans, it was mainly due to luck and a single advantageous guess as to
the anatomy of werewolves. Dracula’s retaliation saw the destruction of the group’s headquarters.
As the culmination of Dracula’s plan’s approached, local law enforcement attempted to supplement the
Monster Squad’s efforts, but lacked the knowledge necessary to defeat supernatural creatures.
Instead, a German concentration camp survivor, known colloquially to the
group as Scary German Guy, would help translate the necessary spell to create a portal to limbo.
With the final intervention of Frankenstein’s Monster and a returned Abraham Van Helsing,
Dracula’s forces were banished and the victory of evil prevented.
The United States Army, having received Eugne’s warning, arrived minutes too late to intervene
in the final battle, but was presented with the Monster Squad’s business card;
cementing the group as the ultimate authority in monster hunting.